All crisis workers are at risk of experiencing secondary traumatic stress (STS). In this
chapter, evidence is presented suggesting that crisis worker exposure to trauma is repetitive …

The concept of vicarious trauma proposes to account for a unique collection of negative
experiences among therapists providing therapy to survivors of trauma. Although the …

BACKGROUND Traumatology, or the field of traumatic stress studies, has become a
dominant focus of interest in the mental health fields only in the past decade. Yet the origin …

This study examined vicarious traumatization (ie, the deleterious effects of trauma therapy
on the therapist) in 188 self-identified trauma therapists. Participants completed …

Objectives. To examine the relationship of coping strategies and responses to intrusive
memories with post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric symptoms in …

Objectives: To predict symptomatology (post-traumatic distress, fatigue, and burnout) due to
acute and chronic work related stressors among ambulance personnel. Methods: Data were …

Urban firefighters are at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due in part to their
exposure to duty-related trauma. This study compared duty-related trauma exposures and …

Little is known about the variables that might be associated with posttraumatic stress
symptomatology in high‐risk occupational groups such as professional firefighters and …

Ehlers and Clark (Behav. Res. Ther., 38 (2000) 319) recently proposed a cognitive model of
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this study, we examined two facets of this model …

Departing from a deprivation approach to the study of trauma, a small body of literature has
recently emerged that examines positive, rather than negative, post-trauma changes …